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Tasting Notes

Tasting Notes by Tim F

Nose: Amazingly fruity. Freshly-soaked barley with brown sugar notes and summer fruits. Develops damson, plum and a faint menthol hint, with some earthiness and a whiff of brine. Becomes more leafy when water is added.

Palate: Barley sugar and burning wood. Creosote and treacle toffee. Then rosehip and tingling peppery spices. Liquorice and a pleasant doughiness. More assertive and savoury than the nose suggested, but mellows with a drop of water.